End-of-Project Webinar & Report
End-of-Project Report: Creating a Circular Economy for Hard Disk Drives — A Shared Vision (October 31 & November 1, 2018).
Q&A from End-of-Project Report — Value Recovery from Used Electronics Project
Final Report: Value Recovery Project, Phase 2 (August 2019)
Project Statement of Work and Project Statement
Project Statement (Version 1.0; August 30, 2017)
Statement of Work (Version 1.0; August 30, 2017)
Purpose of Project
This fast-turn project project focused on collaboration in hard disk drive design, reuse, remanufacturing, and materials and component recovery that enables a robust, sustainable circular supply economy for hard disk drives. As articulated clearly by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the creation of a circular economy for any product requires a multi-stakeholder approach. From the users’ viewpoint, to be effective, the rationales, pathways and incentives must be compelling enough to convince users to channel their products into the value recovery stream. For HDDs in particular, data security concerns (and the legal and corporate liabilities associated with the release of confidential and sensitive data) frequently lead HDD users in the US to shred their HDDs, even if they are fully functional. One of the goals of the project was to engage with HDD users and all those in the value recovery supply chain to assess users’ data security concerns and obligations and best practices required to avoid shredding. The stakeholder groups identified in Phase 1 (users, manufacturers, service providers, and parts manufacturers, and for others critical to value recovery of HDD) must work together to analyze the capabilities of existing and new technologies and identify the gaps needed to “complete the circle.” The purpose of this project was to take the next steps in developing a circular economy for HDDs.
Presentations
Validation of Ostrom’s Framework to Support a Circular Economy for Used Electronics — A Shared Vision, Carol Handwerker (Purdue University), William Olsen (ASM, formerly Seagate) and Mark Schaffer (INEMI), 2019 MRS Spring Meeting (April 24; Phoenix, Arizona).
Application of the Ostrom Framework to Support a Circular Economy for Used Electronics, presented by Carol Handwerker (Purdue University), Going Green - CARE Innovation 2018; November 26-29, 2019 (Vienna, Austria).
Validation of Ostrom's Principles to Support Circular Economy in Used Electronics; presented by Hongyue Jin (Purdue University & University of Arizona), International Symposium for Sustainable Systems and Technology 2018 (ISSST) (June 27, 2018; Buffalo, New York, USA)
Creating a Circular Economy for Hard Disk Drives - A Shared Vision, presented by Carol Handwerker (Purdue University), 22nd Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference (June 18, 2018; Portland, Oregon, USA)
Mid-Term Project Report Webinar (May 9, 2018).
Call-for-Participation Presentation (September 6, 2017)
A Vision for the Circular Economy in Hard Disk Drives Based on Self-Management of Common Pool Resources, presented by Haley Fu (INEMI), Eco-Design 2017 (Tainan, Taiwan; November 29, 2017)
INEMI Project Value Recovery from End-of-Life Electronics - Phase 2, presented by Wayne Rifer, Green Electronics Council, Electronics Goes Green (September 7, 2016; Berlin)
For Additional Information
Mark Schaffer
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